Styles or Soul Unison?

Pyroman.EXE · Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 6:17 am Post subject:

I loved style changes, and I miss them. Plus, you get nice programs with leveling up your style changes. Heat Bug was teh shiz.

Still though, I think Soul Unisons come in handy more. This way you have a wide variety of methods to defeat your opponent, and can change elements at will. Also, the charge attacks are way more powerful, and charging chips is always fun. (Especially with Metal Soul... you can charge normal chips!)

Akureikaze · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Posts: 4 Location: Hawaii

I prefer Soul Unisons over Style Changes.
Style change got boring after awhile....all i used to do was get bug style, get bug stop program from it. Put Bug stop+Hub Batch+ 4 charge programs, and use Shadow Style. Almost impossible to get pinned down >>;;
I suppose you could use souls much more strategically over all....
When making folders, I used to center around one Soul. And thats all.
The two souls i actually found most useful were
Number Soul+Number Ball folder.
Metal Soul +Air hoc 3 folder.
Do not think lightly of Metal Soul and Air hoc 3. Nor, Number Soul and Number balls capabilities. Metal Soul and air hoc 3 folder, made it incredibly easy to take down the navis for the times you needed in BN 4.
Search Soul, is very handy for P.A. Folders. Able to shuffle through and get all the chips you need for it. I used it with my Gun Sol folder. Made it incredibly easy to pull the chips needed.
Im probably one of the only ones who thinks this but....Blues(Proto)Soul is one of the least useful. Capabilites on it are to limited. Looks cool, but overall, crappy useage. If you could charge up lifesword with Blues(Proto)Soul, i woudl have a change of mind but, you can't.

Xel · Dr. Wily's Peon Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 60

Well, the main problem with Soul Unison are their folders are so cheap. Metal soul with Air Hocs go through almost anything. =/ Even Bug Style wasn't THAT cheap.

Wolf · Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 9:48 pm Post subject:

StyleChange going up!

Stylechange is better, fits your personality, get progs. "never runs out*. When you use your 6 souls....... you're doomed! But style changes can last forever.

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NotJim · :3c Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 973

Soul Unions. They're more dynamic.

Dynamic, I mean you can change from one to another in-battle - so you can adapt to the circumstances of the battle.
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RLinksoul · Net Savior Joined: 14 Jun 2005 Posts: 186

I miss my AquaSheild Style... T_T
But I have to say Souls are more helpful,As most of them allow you to charge the chips of their type,I've only played BN 2 "up to Freezeman" and 4,but im pretty sure some form of Lifeaura was in the other 2..

Netbattler_Kev · Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 27 Location: The CyberNet

I would prefer Soul Unison, it gives Megaman abilities he would have never imagined. And they each fit a diffrent situation in the show.
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forte42 · Net Battler Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 96

i think that the problem is that both are equaly good but both have their limitations however the inclution of both would probably give it some flare if they make it so that you can choose which ones during battle but had to preset and develop them and have a few limitations i just like it more when you have style change

Synchro-Kun · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 9:45 pm Post subject:

I prefer Style Change. I used to like Soul Unison, but after a month of playing EXE 4, I got bored of it. Sacrificing a chip just isn't me.
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NotJim · :3c Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 973

How about if both were combined?
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YurikoOtaku · Net Agent Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 272

Style Changes.

In BN3,you ARE stuck with a style change. However,in every few hundred battles,you get the option to change styles according to the style you have been playing,which I believe is good. Heat Guts is the pwn. You could also revert back to "normal" style,who gives you no advantage,but no disadvantage as well.

Style Changes,I believe you can "abuse" them.For example,if a person who likes Blues Soul puts all sword chips into his folder(I doubt this can work; he'll have to find 6 type of sword chips,and there are also Mega,Giga,and chips like Area Steal),after 3 turns,he'll drop out,then use a sword chip to unite again. This abuse can be extremly disadvantageous,if you meet viruses which are on the second right panel,you're screwed. I believe people would have the common sense to put a few range chips insides,but sometimes I'm wrong.*coughLan_93cough*

That's why style changes are good. There is a mix of chips,instead of just focusing on a type of chip.

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Soul Unions all the way. They're a lot easier to use than Styles, and, since they only last three turns, if you choose the wrong one, you're not totally screwed, like with style changes. Laughing

Blaze · Net Savior Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 139

soul unison.
you can battle better that way.
let's say you have fire X style and you encounterd an aqua type virus.
he have an advantage over you.
if you can use soul unison insted of style changes, you can simply not use the soul unison.
and soul unison are easier to get.
and, you get great effects with soul unison!
isn't a step sword for every sword great?
isn't damege bonus for chips are great?
and you can have 6 soul unisons at once.
not 2 styles like in EXE 2, not 1 like in EXE 3, 6 souls.
or 12 in EXE 5.
although i think they could be fused, and they ARE fused in EXE 5!
[spoil:8cfcb16129]FCR[/spoil:8cfcb16129] is like a style.
you don't need to se it up in the battle, you can't return to normal in the battle, only outside of it.
see? they are fused.
anyway, i say Napalm soul owns.
and Chaos Shadow too.
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Xel · Dr. Wily's Peon Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 60

Here's the thing about Soul Unisons, most of them are only good for certain problems, ala Junk Soul,are really inefective, Like using Blues Soul on a moloko, or just take lots of set up to be effective as you have to had a certain type of chip to attack with. And the element thing isn't really a good arguement. For example, If you're Heat-Shadow/sheild style, you could just usereflect/invis against water attacks. Heat Ground could just use one of it's set programs, like SetHoly or something like that. Heat Custom could just bring out an Rook, Barrier, or Aura chip using it's ability to get more chips in the custom screen. Heat Brother could just whip out an Navi chip and hit the attacker mid-shot. And Heat Guts has the spr armor program, he'll hit the virus at the same time he gets hit, or could just move out of the way while charging his buster.

And the whole charge chip thing? There was better chips back when styles were around, they didn't need to charge them. =p

FusionDragon2099 · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 12:57 pm Post subject:

The think I like about Soul Unisons is that you can keep your opponent guessing. You start a link battle in BN2-BN3, your opponent sees what style you have, plans accordingly. Battle in BN4-BN5, just as your opponent figures you out, you change souls, and change strategies to match. Adds a whole new dimension to multiplayer.

Jenova Spawn · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 5:09 pm Post subject:

I like souls a lot more than styles, but I did love my Aqua Shadow Style..... >_<. Souls offer you more abilities and allow you to quickly adapt to any battle situation. Plus they make you look a lot cooler. :D
Chaos Souls are in the middle because they can give you tremendous power, but screw you over with your own Dark Soul if you mess up when charging.
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Darkloid_Blues · Age: 35 Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 34 Location: Black Earth

A good tip with Chaos Soul charge shots is that it's better to release it too early rather than too late.

I'm kind of torn on this. I mean, it would be way easier to roast Molokos and such with my old Heat Shadow flamethrower, but Gyro Soul gives you Float Shoes without needing to use an NCP. Sure Bug Style can be fun and unpredictable, but you get that same thrill out of Chaos Unisons.

Overall though, I would have to say Style Change. The Soul Unisons for each version are set. You have those same six souls as everyone else with your version, period. But Style Change adapts to your battle style. It lets you try new things in effort to get a new style, and makes you work more with your strategies. Yes, Soul Unisons are more unpredictable, but have you ever noticed how hard it is to make a single chip code folder based on one? I'm pretty sure it's almost impossible. With Style Change, however, you have to work harder. You have an element weakness (Except EXE2's Saito style, and it's the HP weakness), but it makes you work harder and incorporate different strategies to overcome it, making you a better battler in the long run.

I have nothing against Soul Unison. I agree, the ones I have right now in ToB are very useful. I just find myself wishing for Style Change sometimes, where we get the color changing effect of MMO instead of the power-taking effect of Axl from MMX. I don't know, maybe I'm just nostalgic.
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Midnight · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 10:36 pm Post subject:

That may be true, but she brings up a valid point. And, for every AreaGrab you may have, I may have a MetaGel to counter it. Then you are back to the same situation.

Souls also allow for people to create theme-based folders for the game, but who said styles do not generate theme-based folders too? For example, in BN3 there was something known as NDI, which ran on GrassStage, HeatSpread PA, and BlackBombs. Obviously a very powerful folder, and can become even more so with the use of HeatGround Style. That way, one does not have to waste a chip to activate the BlackBomb.
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Viewtiful Starman · Puzzle Game Addict Age: 37 Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 708

I prefer souls... styles last longer, but I've found the effects that the souls give to be quite a lot more effective and interesting compared to styles.
Styles have some good effects too though... and being able to combine the effects of some of the styles helps get them pretty close to as good as souls IMO.